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ment, it is covered with a deep, luxuriant foliage, looking as 

 fresh and vigorous as a stripling of the forest." 



In July, of 1838, I measured the noble elm which stands in 

 front of the dwelling-house of Capt. Jaquish, about one mile 

 from the centre of Newburyport. This was set out in 1713, by 

 Richard Jaquish, who was born in 1683. It may, therefore, be 

 one hundred and thirty-five or one hundred and forty years old. 

 At the smallest place between the roots and the branches, it 

 was fifteen feet in circumference, and probably over eighty feet 

 high. It had many large branches, one of which was more 

 than three feet in diameter. 



Mr. William Bacon, of Natick, mentions two remarkable 

 elms growing in that town. " One of them is not far from 

 the Old Hartford road, near South Natick Mills. Its pendent 

 branches are spread equally in all directions, to the distance of 

 fifty feet from the trunk, thus giving a diameter to its shade of 

 about one hundred feet. It is the handsomest specimen of its 

 genus which I ever saw." 



" The other is standing upon the south side of the road which 

 leads from Natick to Wayland, near the house of Mr. Edward 

 Hammond. This tree was transplanted to its present situation 

 about sixty years since, under the superintendence of the gen- 

 tleman who still occupies the mansion. It now, (1838,) mea- 

 sures thirteen feet in circumference four feet above the ground, 

 and probably twenty or more at the surface. Its shade mea- 

 sures, from north to south, at noon-day, one hundred and two 

 feet. It ramifies at the height of about eight or nine feet." 



The great Sheffield elm had, in September, 1844, at the ground, 

 a girth of twenty-two feet six inches; at two feet, eighteen feet 

 six inches ; at three, sixteen feet nine inches ; at four, fifteen 

 feet ten inches; at five, sixteen feet; at six, sixteen feet seven 

 inches, above which it rapidly enlarges, and divides at ten or 

 twelve feet into three large limbs, which soon subdivide. Its 

 spread westward, from the centre, is forty-nine feet six inches, 

 and it is nearly equal on every side ; height sixty or seventy feet. 



At Johnston, on the estate of Royal Potter, Esq., is a mag- 

 nificent elm, which I measured, August 21, 1840, with the 

 aid of Hon. Horace Mann. At from twelve to fifteen feet, it 



